Grades 9 10 Text Exemplars 101

Grades 9–10 Text Exemplars...... 101 Stories...... 101 Homer. The Odyssey...... 101 Ovid. Metamorphoses...... 101 Gogol, Nikolai. “The Nose.”...... 102 De Voltaire, F. A. M. Candide, Or The Optimist...... 103 Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons...... 104 Henry, O. “The Gift of the Magi.”...... 104 Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis...... 105 Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath...... 105 Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451...... 106 Olsen, Tillie. “I Stand Here Ironing.”...... 106 Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart...... 107 Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird...... 107 Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels...... 108 Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club...... 108 Álvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies...... 108 Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief...... 109

Drama...... 110 Sophocles. Oedipus Rex...... 110 Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth...... 111 Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House...... 113 Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie...... 114 Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros...... 115 Fugard, Athol. “Master Harold”…and the boys...... 116

Poetry...... 116 Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 73.”...... 116 Donne, John. “Song.”...... 116 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Ozymandias.”...... 117 Poe, Edgar Allen. “The Raven.”...... 117 Dickinson, Emily. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.”...... 119 Houseman, A. E. “Loveliest of Trees.”...... 120 Johnson, James Weldon. “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”...... 120 Cullen, Countee. “Yet Do I Marvel.”...... 120 Auden, Wystan Hugh. ”Musée des Beaux Arts.”...... 120 Walker, Alice. “Women.”...... 120 Baca, Jimmy Santiago. “I Am Offering This Poem to You.”...... 121 Sample Performance Tasks for Stories, Drama, and Poetry...... 121

Informational Texts: English Language Arts...... 122 Henry, Patrick. “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention.”...... 122 Washington, George. “Farewell Address.” ...... 123 Lincoln, Abraham. “Gettysburg Address.” ...... 123 Lincoln, Abraham. “Second Inaugural Address.” ...... 124 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “State of the Union Address.” ...... 124 Hand, Learned. “I Am an American Day Address.” ...... 125 Smith, Margaret Chase. “Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience.” ...... 125 King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”...... 127 King, Jr., Martin Luther. “I Have a Dream: Address Delivered at the March on Washington, D.C., for Civil Rights on August 28, 1963.”...... 127 Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings...... 128 Wiesel, Elie. “Hope, Despair and Memory.”...... 128 Reagan, Ronald. “Address to Students at Moscow State University.”...... 128 Quindlen, Anna. “A Quilt of a Country.”...... 129

Sample Performance Tasks for Informational Texts: English Language Arts.129

Grades 11–CCR Text Exemplars......

Stories...... 140 Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales...... 140 de Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote...... 140 Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice...... 142 Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Cask of Amontillado.”...... 143 Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre...... 144 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter...... 145 Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment...... 146 Jewett, Sarah Orne. “A White Heron.”...... 146 Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor...... 147 Chekhov, Anton. “Home.”...... 148 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby...... 149 Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying...... 149 Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to ...... 150 Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God...... 150 Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Garden of Forking Paths.”...... 150 Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March...... 151 Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye...... 152 Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban...... 152 Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake...... 152

Drama...... 153 Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet...... 153 Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Tartuffe...... 153 Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest...... 154 Wilder, Thornton. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts...... 156 Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman...... 156 Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun...... 156 Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play...... 157 Poetry...... 157 Li Po. “A Poem of Changgan.”...... 157 Donne, John. “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.”...... 157 Wheatley, Phyllis. “On Being Brought From Africa to America.”...... 158 Keats, John. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”...... 158 Whitman, Walt. “Song of Myself.”...... 159 Dickinson, Emily. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”...... 160 Tagore, Rabindranath. “Song VII.”...... 160 Eliot, T. S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”...... 160 Pound, Ezra. “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.”...... 160 Frost, Robert. “Mending Wall.”...... 161 Neruda, Pablo. “Ode to My Suit.”...... 162 Bishop, Elizabeth. “Sestina.”...... 162 Ortiz Cofer, Judith. “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.”...... 162 Dove, Rita. “Demeter’s Prayer to Hades.”...... 163 Collins, Billy. “Man Listening to Disc.”...... 163 Sample Performance Tasks for Stories, Drama, and Poetry...... 163

Informational Texts: English Language Arts...... 164 Paine, Thomas. Common Sense...... 164 Jefferson, Thomas. The Declaration of Independence...... 164 United States. The Bill of Rights (Amendments One through Ten of the United States Constitution)...... 166 Thoreau, Henry David. Walden...... 167 Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Society and Solitude.”...... 167 Porter, Horace. “Lee Surrenders to Grant, April 9th, 1865.”...... 168 Chesterton, G. K. “The Fallacy of Success.”...... 169 Mencken, H. L. The American Language, 4th Edition...... 169 Wright, Richard. Black Boy...... 170 Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language.”...... 170 Hofstadter, Richard. “Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.”...... 170 Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.”...... 170 Anaya, Rudolfo. “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”...... 171 Sample Performance Tasks for Informational Texts: English Language Arts 171